Mendy+-+Avril

Hello! My Name is Averill. I am a junior at Arapahoe High School, and I am so excited to be able to talk to you half way across the world!  My passion is musical theater. There's nothing I like doing more than singing and acting. I have three older brothers, and one older sister: all of whom have moved out and I am the last one at home. Only one more year to go before I am off to college and on my own. I'm excited for that day!

I have a funny story for you from when I was very young. My closest brother, Jake, used to tell me stories- and I always believed him. He was three years older than me and some way or another always convinced me that whatever he said was the truth. One day he was out playing with his friend and I wanted to play with them so badly. But Jake didn't want me to. He told me that it wasn't safe outside this time of night for little girls. I told him that yesterday our neighbor was playing right around this time. He said that it's only not safe for little blonde girls. Whose name starts with A. He told me there was a monster that only comes out when there are little blonde girls whose names start with A playing outside at this very moment. I ran inside screaming, and for a year I didn't play with him at that time of night. Isn't that silly? I can't wait to hear from you!

This is the some of the family. My parents, me with the brown skirt, and my brother Jake on the right - Averill

Hi!I am Mendy.I am glad to hear from you.I am sorry for replying you so late. I am not good at singing and acting,But I like singing to enjoy myself,my classmates Angela and Valery are good at singing. You and your brother Jake's story is so funny.You are so pretty a girl and Jake is so clever, I think your family is full of happiness beacause you have 3 brothers and a sister.I have no brother or sister.Most of my classmates is the same as me.It is just because of the policy Family Planning which is used to contorl the population of China.So I used to feel lonely before I went to school.I wished I could have an older brother who can protect me and a little sister.who I can take care of. Wellington is so cute.I had a dog called Flower when I was a pupil.I liked it very much.But my mum don't like pets,she thought I couldn't take good care of Flower and she had no time to take care of it.So Flower was given to my cousin. .I am glad I can make friends with you!

**Hi Averill! I'm Jake's partner Valery. Just being interested, why do you call your dog //Wellington//? Does it have something to do with NewZealand? :) p.s. Music is my life too!** Hey! This is Jake from American Lit class. I'm also Valery's partner. I was just looking at everyone's pages. I didn't know you were in Chinese! Ni hao!

Hello!Jake,I am Mendy from Beijing University of Chinese Medcine,my Chinese name is Jia Ruolan.I am glad to make friends with you and Averill!

Hello everyone! glad to see this page has so many responses! Hi Valery! And Jake, I didn't know you were in Chinese class either. That's fun :) I named my dog Wellington because there is a little town in Colorado where we got him: Wellington, Colorado. And yay for music!

Mendy, I'm curious as to how you would get a chinese name, and/or an american/english name? I'm sorry about flower. I hope you still get to see him at your cousin's house! My brother is actually the reason why I'm taking Chinese. He is in Toronto,Canada right now studying it. Are there a lot of people in China who learn English? It is so much fun to talk to you! -Averill Averil, I got my chinese name from my grandpa."Ruolan" is my given name and "Jia" is my family name.I think Chinese name is a little different from American name,we always put our family name firstly. All of Chinese students are learning English now,including pupils.I think maybe some of pupils speak English better than Chinese.Beacause our teacher think English is an important tool to learn and to communicate.And English is my major,so it's more important for me. My first English teacher named me Mendy,so I got my English name.And how did you get your name?I have heared that Americans name after some famous person,is it really?

Mendy, Sorry it took me so long to respond! Our names are very similar i think. Averill is a family name. many people name their children after their parents or their grandparents, or just someone they admire... I haven't met too many people with a name after a famous person actually... I think we should be learning chinese from the time we are very little. Chinese and english are very different ways of thinking, and i think it would be really cool if we were exposed to both.